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I think Yahoo's use of PHP is making people think twice before thinking that its a crap language, cos all of a sudden (over here anyways) I'm beginning to find PHP books amongst the shelves instead of ASP

Here's another fun fact about PHP - in it's entire history, groups backing PHP as a solution have probably spent, in total, less than $100,000 marketting it. And yet it's the worlds most popular server side language...

Hats off to those 'nicitone free 14 year olds' - sure will be interesting when they're old enough to start making the decisions in companies

You go ahead and have your fun in the PHP forum then, patting each other on the backs for small advances and ignoring the leaps and bounds of other programming languages.

I'm sure .NET has it's uses, and probably even has some advantages over PHP, and the other way around.

But for small sites with some simple CMS, which is the niche I'm looking for, I'm under the impression it's rather cumbersome and expensive. That's why I decided on PHP as my first server side weblanguage. It seemed to meet my requirements better.

What I do think is close-minded, however, is for a major provider ('major' in this country) to completely ignore a popular language such as PHP and be smug about it.

Originally posted by Jeremy W. Once again PHP wins because more 14 year olds use it than smoke cigarettes

Could you also tell us the reason why younger people will choose PHP to create, for example, a webform rather than choose .NET? It seems the obvious choice to me; people want what's easiest, cheapest and most appropriate for their website, they don't want an expensive technology aimed at corporate users

Originally posted by seanf Could you also tell us the reason why younger people will choose PHP to create, for example, a webform rather than choose .NET? It seems the obvious choice to me; people want what's easiest, cheapest and most appropriate for their website, they don't want an expensive technology aimed at corporate users

Sean

ASP.NET is really not that expensive. It will (generally) cost you slightly more on low-end/low-cost hosts, but it's really negligable once you start paying for bandwidth. I think the reason PHP is picked by younger people is the fact that you don't need to know one bit of software architecture whatsover to code a web site, which you need to with ASP.NET. PHP is excellent to start with, but I find ASP.NET sleeker and more solid overall.

Stop trying to cause flame wars.

Dont deny it, it seems like every time a pro-php discussion arised you're always in there with the snide "well .NET blah blah blah blah so there" type remarks.

So he should just site there and shut up while someone makes a totally unfounded remark about the quality of PHP? Thank reason Jeremy is here to create some kind of eqilubrium, since the PHP community is really rabid about PHP. PHP is a wonderful language, but that doesn't mean that everything else sucks.